{"id":80677,"date":"2026-08-21T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80677\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:00:05","slug":"how-mega-donors-are-buying-political-influence-and-your-algorithm-electoral-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80677\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018mega-donors\u2019 are buying political influence&#8230; and your algorithm | Electoral Dysfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"How \u2018mega-donors\u2019 are buying political influence... and your algorithm | Electoral Dysfunction\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhzlZrnQhLY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow \u2018mega-donors\u2019 are buying political influence&#8230; and your algorithm | Electoral Dysfunction<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow are our political parties funded \u2013 and is it time for a cap on donations?  <\/p>\n<p>Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman pull back the curtain on political donations \u2013 and discuss whether bots astroturfing social media are rapidly becoming a major threat to democracy.  <\/p>\n<p>Author and journalist Peter Geoghehan joins the pod to explain how we got here and what exactly is going on online. <\/p>\n<p>In relation to the \u00a35m gift from Christopher Harborne and any benefits in kind from George Cottrell, Nigel Farage insists he has committed &#8220;no wrongdoing&#8221; and has followed the rules.<\/p>\n<p>To listen without ads, get new episodes a week early, exclusive bonus episodes, and much more, become a Sky News Insider. Find out more and subscribe at https:\/\/skynews.com\/electoraldysfunction   <\/p>\n<p>Got a question for the burner phone? WhatsApp 07934 200 444 or email electoraldysfunction@sky.uk.   <\/p>\n<p>Sky News Insider requires a paid subscription and is available to UK listeners aged 18 and over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How \u2018mega-donors\u2019 are buying political influence&#8230; and your algorithm | Electoral Dysfunction How are our political parties funded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[13615,20619,49727,49952,10618,22824,425,65892,65893,2375,62053,247,15119,296,65894,4751],"class_list":["post-80677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-beth-rigby","tag-christopher-harborne","tag-donations","tag-donors","tag-electoral-dysfunction","tag-harriet-harman","tag-money","tag-money-in-politics","tag-peter-geoghehan","tag-political-donations","tag-political-parties","tag-politics","tag-ruth-davidson","tag-sky-news","tag-sky-news-insider","tag-westminster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117134107725483429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}